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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …
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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …, not be advantageous. -- child outcomes ; parental separation ; distance …
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How distance to a non-resident parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 4, pp. 829-857
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Twin Birth and Maternal Condition
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2018
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for 17 million births in 72 countries, we...
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The Twin Instrument : Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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Twin birth and maternal condition
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for 17 million births in 72 countries, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896677
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542